Ivan Kramskoi
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Ivan Kramskoi | |
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Иван Крамской | |
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire | |
Resting place | Tikhvin Cemetery, St. Petersburg |
Education | |
Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1863) |
Notable work | The Mermaids (1871) Christ in the Desert (1872) Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1883) |
Movement | Realism, Peredvizhniki |
Patron(s) | Pavel Tretyakov |
Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi (
Life
Kramskoi came from an impoverished petit-
Influenced by the ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, Kramskoi asserted the high public duty of the artist, principles of
In one of Kramskoi's most well known paintings,
Aspiring to expand the ideological expressiveness of his images, Kramskoi created art that existed on the cusp of portraiture and genre-painting ("Nekrasov during the period of 'Last songs,'" 1877–78; "Unknown Woman," 1883; "Inconsolable grief," 1884; all in Tretyakov gallery). These paintings disclose their subjects' complex and sincere emotions, their personalities and fates. The orientation of Kramskoi's art, his acute critical judgments about it, and his persistent quest for objective public criteria for the evaluation of art exerted an essential influence on the development of realist art and aesthetics in Russia in the last third of the nineteenth century.
Kramskoi was considered an eccentric for giving his works to customers in expensive frames and not charging money for it.
Gallery
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The Mermaids, 1871
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Taras Shevchenko, 1871
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Old man with a crutch, 1872
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Christ in the Desert, 1872
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Leo Tolstoy, 1873
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Pavel Tretyakov, 1876
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Ivan Shishkin, 1880
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Maria Feodorovna, 1880s
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Portrait of a woman reading, 1881
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Mina Moiseyev, 1882
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Vladimir Solovyov, 1885
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Alexander III, 1886
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-953294-0.
- ^ "Kramskoi, Ivan". encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ Rozdobudko, Ihor. "Іван Крамський (1837–1887) – український художник зі Східної Слобожанщини". radiosvoboda.org.
- ^ Apresyan, A. (2020-01-25). "5 eccentricities of great Russian painters". Russia Beyond the Headlines. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
Further reading
- OCLC 7262671.